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• ‘Visa restrictions, acting appointments are modern pressures on judicial independence’ — Justice Abel

  (Kaieteur News) – Modern threats to judicial independence rarely present as explicit commands or direct violence. Instead, they operate by subtly “arranging the atmosphere” to teach judges which decisions carry high personal and institutional costs, prominent legal scholar Professor Justice Courtney Abel warned regional jurists. Delivering an address on current tensions between judicial independence and the […]

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• Pres. Ali makes direct appeal to P5 for Rodrigues as next UN chief

  …urges Security Council, UN members to look beyond size of Guyana (Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali on Thursday made a direct appeal to the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to endorse Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett as the next UN Secretary-General, urging world leaders to look past Guyana’s size and evaluate her candidacy […]

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• Delegates walk out on Netanyahu at UN

  UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mounted a forceful defense of Israel’s actions in the region at the UN on Thursday, seeking to counter growing international isolation ahead of ​elections he could lose, as dozens of delegates streamed out. The walkout underscored the competing pressures facing Netanyahu, who is battling mounting […]

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